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More goods transported over inland waterways in 2024
Over 332 million tonnes of cargo was transported by inland vessel over the Netherlands’ inland waterways in 2024
Machine learning transport mode prediction in a smartphone-based travel survey
An evaluation of different of a machine-learning algorithms for transport mode classification in the CBS travel app.
4.7 million refugees from Ukraine across Europe
Since the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, 4.7 million people have fled from Ukraine to other parts of Europe
GDP per capita: Netherlands fourth in EU in 2024
In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) per person in the Netherlands was 63 thousand euros
Household consumption up by almost 1 percent in March
Household spending was 0.9 percent higher in March 2025 than it was in March 2024, adjusted for price changes.
Economic growth in Q4 2025
How did the Dutch economy perform in the fourth quarter of 2025? The video presents our initial calculations, explained by Peter Hein van Mulligen, chief economist at Statistics Netherlands (CBS)....
1947
By far the biggest problem when conducting a census is keeping all the data confidential. The 1947 census resolved this issue by updating the forms people had to fill in.
Local intergovernmental org.; balance sheet per 31 December 2005-2021
Municipalities accounts, balance sheet according to the Dutch regulation ‘Besluit Begroting en Verantwoording gemeenten en provincies (BBV)'.
Butterfly numbers continue to fall, including common species
The Netherlands’ butterfly population declined by 56 percent between 1992 and 2024.
More victims of online crime in 2024
In 2024, 2.4 million people in the Netherlands aged 15 and over said they had been the victim of one or more forms of online crime within the past twelve months.
More cross-border commuters from Germany and Belgium in 2023
In 2023, close to 90 thousand people worked in the Netherlands while living across the border: 44 thousand people in Belgium and 45 thousand in Germany
Investment down by almost 4 percent in February
In February 2024, the volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was down by 3.6 percent year on year.
Over 5 percent of Dutch population lived through the liberation of 1945
On 5 May 2025, the Netherlands celebrates 80 years of freedom since the country was occupied during World War II.
Over 1 in 4 people very concerned about misuse of online data
In 2024, over a quarter of the population aged 15 and older said they were very concerned about the theft of personal data as the result of hacking or a data breach
Traffic mortality down by 42 percent in past 25 years
A total of 675 people died in traffic accidents in 2024, 9 fewer than in 2023.
Misunderstandings due to multilingualism in the workplace
The majority of respondents (64 percent) say that when colleagues speak more than one language, this rarely leads to misunderstandings.
Manufacturing output prices 0.4 percent higher in March
Output prices for Dutch-manufactured products were 0.4 percent higher on average in March 2025 relative to one year previously.
Number of asylum requests halved in Q1 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, nearly 4.5 thousand people submitted a first-time asylum application in the Netherlands.
More asylum seekers with residency in paid work
Work has become the main source of income for asylum seekers who have been a resident in the Netherlands for a longer period of time.
Economic picture remains equally negative in October
The economic picture was virtually as negative in October as it was in September.
Gender pay gap is narrowing
The average hourly wages for women in 2024 were 10.5 percent lower than those for men.
Passenger cars keep getting longer, wider and heavier
assenger cars have increased in weight by an average of 94 kilograms, or 8.1 percent, over the past ten years.
Manufacturing output up by 1 percent in February
In February 2025, the calendar-adjusted output of the Dutch manufacturing sector was 1 percent higher than it was in February 2024.
Emissions from road traffic down by over 16 percent in ten years
In 2023, 3.6 million kilograms of particulate matter were emitted from road traffic in the Netherlands, 16.3 percent less than in 2013.
New CBS research focuses on the ecology and economy of North Sea
The Dutch area of the North Sea is our country’s largest nature reserve, but it is also used intensively by maritime traffic and for wind farms, for example.